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sick as a horse
Horses are said to be extremely sick at their stomachs, from being unable to relieve themselves by v...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sick as a dog
A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach.
He that saieth he is dog sick, or sick as a ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Sick
·noun <<Sickness>>.
II. Sick ·superl Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
III. Sick ·vi To fal...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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sick
a small stream, or rill. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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as
as, assis, m. (nom. assis, Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 43, and Schol. ad Pers. 2, 59; old form assārĭus, ii,...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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as
ās assis, m 2 AC-, one, a whole, unity ; hence (late), ex asse heres, of the entire estate . — Es...
An Elementary Latin Dictionary
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·AS
(abbreviation) Anglo-Saxon Origin
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As
·noun An <<Ace>>.
II. As ·adv & ·conj As if; as though.
III. As ·adv & ·conj Expressing a wish.
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Horse
·noun ·see <<Footrope>>, ·adj.
II. Horse ·vi To get on horseback.
III. Horse ·adj A breastband for...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Horse
Always referred to in the Bible in connection with warlike operations, except Isa. 28:28. The war-ho...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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horse
A foot-rope reaching from the opposite quarter of a yard to its arms or shoulders, and depending abo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Horse
The most striking feature in the biblical notices of the horse is the exclusive application of it to...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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hearty as a buck
A hunter's phrase, now in very common use.
Well, how d'ye do, any how?
So, so, middlin'. I'm heart...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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slick as a whistle
A proverbial simile, in common use throughout the United States. To do anything as slick as a whistl...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sure as a gun
Absolutely certain. A common colloquial expression.--Brockett.
There's luck, says auld Lizzy, in fa...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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as good as go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Fancy-sick
·adj Love-sick.
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Guilt-sick
·adj Made sick by consciousness of guilt.
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Iron-sick
·adj Having the ironwork loose or corroded;
— said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten ...
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Love-sick
·adj Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love.
II. Love-sick ·adj Languishing with love o...
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Sick-brained
·adj Disordered in the brain.
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Turn-sick
·adj <<Giddy>>.
II. Turn-sick ·noun A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy....
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sheep-sick
n.
Used of pastures exhausted forcarrying sheep. Compare English screw-sick, paint-sick,nail-sick, ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dog sick
A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach.
He that saieth he is dog sick, or sick as a ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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car-sick
the kennel, from CAR and SIKE, a furrow or gutter ; q. the Cart-gutter. Yorks.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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iron-sick
The condition of vessels when the iron work becomes loose in the timbers from corrosion by gallic ac...
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sick-bay
A portion of the fore-part of the main-deck, reserved for the accommodation of the sick and wounded;...
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sick-book
An account of such officers and men as are on the sick list on board, or are sent to an hospital, ho...
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sick-flag
The yellow quarantine flag, hoisted to prevent communication; whence the term of the yellow flag, an...
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sick-mess
A table for those on the doctor's list. When seamen are thus placed, their provisions are turned ove...
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sick-ticket
A document given to an officer, seaman, or marine, when sent to an hospital, certified by the signin...
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Ambes-as
·noun Ambs-ace.
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A
A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, correspond...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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a
a, prep.=ab, v. ab.
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A
A. a. as an abbreviation, 1 for the praenomen Aulus.
2 for Absolvo, on the voting-tablet of a jud...
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A
·- Of.
II. A ·prep In; on; at; by.
III. A ·- An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter.
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A 1
·- A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior...
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A-
·- A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on ...
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A
Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last. These letters occur in the text...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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a
As for example the word alarm, alarum, a bell, from the German lärm; but the military alarm on a dru...
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as fat as a hen in the forehead
A saying of a meagre person.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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crooked as a virginia fence
A phrase applied to anything very crooked; and figuratively to persons of a stub-born temper, who ar...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead as a door nail
Utterly, completely dead. The figure is that of a nail driven into wood, and, therefore, perfectly i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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mad as a march hare
A common simile, used alike in England and America.
The whole's to be fourpence a quart--
'Odswing...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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savage as a meat axe
Exceedingly hungry. This vulgar simile is often used in the Northern and Western States.
"Why, you ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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straight as a loon's leg
is a common simile in New England.
They were puzzled with the accounts; but I saw through it in a m...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to carry a horse to water
instead of lead or ride him to water. A Southern expression.--Sherwood, Georgia.
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Horse Guards
·- A body of cavalry so called; ·esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furn...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Horse power
·- The power which a horse exerts.
II. Horse power ·- A machine worked by a horse, for driving othe...
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Horse-chestnut
·noun The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed ...
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Horse-drench
·noun A dose of physic for a horse.
II. Horse-drench ·noun The appliance by which the dose is admin...
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Horse-jockey
·noun A trainer and dealer in horses.
II. Horse-jockey ·noun A professional rider and trainer of ra...
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Horse-leech
·noun A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
II. Horse-leech ·noun A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis...
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Horse-leechery
·noun The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
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Horse-litter
·noun A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
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Horse-radish
·noun A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pun...
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One-horse
·adj Second-rate; inferior; small.
II. One-horse ·adj Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse...
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Rear-horse
·noun A <<Mantis>>.
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Rocking-horse
·noun The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
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Sea horse
·- The <<Walrus>>.
II. Sea horse ·- Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
III. Sea horse ·- A fabulou...
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Shire horse
·add. ·- One of an English breed of heavy draft horses believed to be descended largely from the hor...
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Stalking-horse
·noun Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.
II. Stalking-horse ·no...
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Stone-horse
·noun <<Stallion>>.
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Stud-horse
·noun A stallion, ·esp. one kept for breeding.
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White horse
·add. ·- A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper ja...
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Horse-gate
A gate in the wall of Jerusalem, at the west end of the bridge, leading from Zion to the temple (Neh...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Horse-leech
Occurs only in Prov. 30:15 (Heb. alukah); the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There are ...
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Horse Alley
1) Messuages in Horse Alley, Shoe Lane, part of the manor of Holbourne, 23 Eliz. (Proc. in Chanc. II...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Horse Head
A capital messuage or tenement so called in Thames Street given to St. Dunstan's Church (Strype, ed....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Horse Mill
Tenement called "le Horsmylle" in Graschirchstrete in parish of St. Peter upon Cornhulle granted to ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Horse Shoe
1) On the north side of Great Eastcheap at Nos. 20-22, near the Boar's Head (q.v.), in the parish of...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Horse Yard
See Evans' Court, Basinghall Street.
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The White Horse
1) A messuage in Holborne and Fetter Lane, 33 Eliz. (Lond. I p.m. III. 153).
Qy. = White Horse Alle...
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banks's horse
A horse famous for playing tricks, the property of one Banks. It is mentioned in Sir Walter Raleigh'...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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butcher's horse
That must have been a butcher's horse, by his carrying a calf so well; a vulgar joke on an awkward r...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead horse
To work for the dead horse; to work for wages already paid.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hobby horse
A man's favourite amusement, or study, is called his hobby horse. It also means a particular kind of...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse buss
A kiss with a loud smack; also a bite.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse coser
A dealer in horses: vulgarly and corruptly pronounced HORSE COURSER. The verb TO COSE was used by th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse godmother
A large masculine woman, a gentlemanlike kind of a lady.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse ladder
A piece of Wiltshire wit, which consists in sending some raw lad, or simpleton, to a neighbouring fa...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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religious horse
One much given to prayer, or apt to be down upon his knees.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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running horse
or NAG
A clap, or gleet.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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scarlet horse
A high red, hired or hack horse: a pun on the word HIRED.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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wooden horse
To fide the wooden horse was a military punishment formerly in use. This horse consisted of two or m...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse-mackerel
n.
The name is applied inSydney to the fish Auxis ramsayi, Castln., family Scombridae. In New Zeala...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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stock-horse
n.
horse accustomed to go aftercattle used in mustering and cutting-out (q.v.).
1874. W. H. L. Ran...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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clothes-horse
A frame-work for hanging clothes on to dry after they have been washed and ironed, in the form of an...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead horse
Work for which one has been paid before it is performed. When a workman, on Saturday night, includes...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-colt
"We frequently see in advertisements these terms, horse-colt, mare-colt, &c. A horse-colt is simply ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-foot
(Genus, polyphemus. Lamarck.) The common name of a crustacea, found in our waters from Massachusetts...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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wheel-horse
An intimate friend; one's right hand man. Western.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-block
, HORSE-STONE, stone to mount on horseback. Lane.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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horse-knops
heads of knapweed. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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thill-horse
the shaft-horse. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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dead-horse
A term applied by seamen to labour which has been paid for in advance. When they commence earning mo...
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fillet-horse
The horse employed in the shafts of the limbers.
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flemish horse
, is the outer short foot-rope for the man at the earing; the outer end is spliced round a thimble o...
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horse-cockle
See gawky
...
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hard-horse
A tyrannical officer.
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horse-artillery
A branch of field artillery specially equipped to manœuvre with cavalry, having lighter guns, and al...
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horse-buckets
Covered buckets for carrying spirits or water in.
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horse-buckle
The great whelk.
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horse-foot
A name of the Limulus polyphemus of the shores of America, where from its shape it is called the hor...
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horse-latitudes
A space between the westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade-winds, notorious for tedious ca...
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horse-mackerel
A large and coarse member of the Scomber family, remarkably greedy, and therefore easily taken, but ...
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horse-marine
An awkward lubberly person. One out of place.
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horse-mussel
See duck-mussel.
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horse-potatoes
The old word for yams.
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horse-power
A comparative estimate of the capacity of steam-engines, by assuming a certain average effective pre...
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horse-shoe
In old fortification, a low work of this plan sometimes thrown up in ditches.
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horse-tongue
A name applied to a kind of sole.
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horse-up
See horsing-iron.
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irish horse
Old salt beef: hence the sailor's address to his salt beef
"Salt horse, salt horse, what brought y...
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iron-horse
The iron rail of the head; the horse of the fore-sheet or boom-sheet traveller.
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light-horse
A name formerly given to all mounted men who were not encumbered with armour.
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mainsheet-horse
A kind of iron dog fixed at the middle of a wooden beam, stretching across a craft's stern, from one...
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old horse
Tough salt-beef.
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race-horse
(Alca?) A duck of the South Seas; thus named, says Cook, for "the great swiftness with which they ru...
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sea-horse
A name for the walrus, Trichecus rosmarus. Also, the hippocampus (which see).
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traverse-horse
See jack-stays.
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water-horse
Cod-fish stacked up in a pile to drain, under the process of cure.
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white-horse
A name of the Raia fullonica. (See also white caps.)
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as deaf as the main-mast
Said of one who does not readily catch an order given. Thus at sea the main-mast is synonymous with ...
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sick-berth attendant
See loblolly-boy.
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as good's go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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slick as grease
Another classical expression, conveying the same idea as the foregoing.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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unclaimed, as derelict
Vessels found at sea without a human being, or a domestic animal, on board are good prizes, if not c...
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A cappella
·- A time indication, equivalent to alla breve.
II. A cappella ·- In church or chapel style;
— sai...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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A cheval
·add. ·- Astride; with a part on each side;
— used specif. in designating the position of an army w...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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A fortiori
·- With stronger reason.
...
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A posteriori
·- Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; i...
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A priori
·- Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to...
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A-mornings
·adv In the morning; every morning.
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A-sea
·adv On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.
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A-tiptoe
·adv On tiptoe; eagerly expecting.
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Due-a
·noun ·see Do-a.
...
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Pi-a
·add. ·noun The <<Pineapple>>.
II. Pi-a ·add. ·noun Pi-a cloth or the fiber of which it is made.
...
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Vicu-a
·noun ·Alt. of <<Vicugna>>.
...
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a-many
a great number, pronounced Meyny. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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a-scat
broken like an egg. Dev.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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a-slat
crack'd like an earthen vessel. Dev.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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a-burton
The situation of casks when they are stowed in the hold athwart ship, or in a line with the beam.
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a-cockbill
(see cock-bill). The anchor hangs by its ring at the cat-head, in a position for dropping.
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a-hull
A ship under bare poles and her helm a-lee, driving from wind and sea, stern foremost. Also a ship d...
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a-lee
The contrary of a-weather: the position of the helm when its tiller is borne over to the lee-side of...
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a-poise
Said of a vessel properly trimmed.
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a-starboard
The opposite to a-port.
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a-stay
Said of the anchor when, in heaving in, the cable forms such an angle with the surface as to appear ...
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a-trip
The anchor is a-trip, or a-weigh, when the purchase has just made it break ground, or raised it clea...
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a-wash
Reefs even with the surface. The anchor just rising to the water's edge, in heaving up.
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a-weather
The position of the helm when its tiller is moved to the windward side of the ship, in the direction...
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a-weigh
The anchor being a-trip, or after breaking out of the ground.
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fallen away from a horse load to a cart load
A saying on one grown fat.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Black Horse Alley
1) East out of Golden Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
Site now occupied by offi...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Black Horse Court
1) West out of Aldersgate Street in Aldersgate Ward Without, south of Long Lane (Rocque, 1746-Boyle,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Black Horse Inn
1) On the west side of Water Lane, Whitefriars, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Black Horse Stables
West out of Minories, at its southern end (Rocque, 1746). In Portsoken Ward.
Site has been rebuilt....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Black Horse Yard
1) East out of Little Britain at No.30, four doors north of Cox's Court (Strype, ed. 1755-Lockie, 18...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flying Horse Court
1) North out of Maiden Lane, west of Wood Street, between Wood Street and Haberdashers' Hall (Strype...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flying Horse Yard
1) East out of Old Broad Street, in Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : "Wh...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Horse Shoe Court
North out of Ludgate Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without, west of Old Bailey (Bacon, 1912).
First ment...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Horse-shoe Bridge
A bridge over the stream of the Walbrook by the church of St. John upon Walbrook (S. 27 and 230).
E...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Horse-shoe Passage
In Foster Lane (Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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White Horse Alley
1) South out of Holborn, east of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Stok...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Horse Court
1) East out of Noble Street, in Aldersgate Ward, between Lillypot Lane and Oat Lane (Strype, 1720 an...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Horse Inn
1) On the east side of Wood Street at No.30, in Cripplegate Ward Within (Rocque, 1746-Lockie, 1816)....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Horse Yard
1) West out of Coleman Street at No.15, in Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Lea...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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horse-radish tree
n.
name given to Codonocarpus cotinifolius, F. v. M., N.O. Phytolaceae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Usefu...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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fore-sheet horse
An iron bar fastened at its ends athwart the deck before the mast of a sloop, for the foresail-sheet...
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horse-shoe clamp
The iron or copper straps so shaped, used as the fastenings which connect the gripe with the fore-fo...
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horse-shoe hinges
Those by which side-scuttles or ventilators to the cabins are hung.
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horse-shoe rack
A sweep curving from the bitt-heads abaft the main-mast carrying a set of nine-pin swivel-blocks as ...
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queer as dick's hatband
Out of order, without knowing one's disease.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold as presbyterian charity
I know not the origin of this saying, and am not aware that there is less charity in this sect than ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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poor as job's turkey
A common simile.
The professor is as poor as Job's turkey, if it wasn't for that powerful salary th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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busy as the devil in a gale of wind
Fidgety restlessness, or double diligence in a bad cause; the imp being supposed to be mischievous i...
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mine a-se on a bandbox
An answer to the offer of any thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is wanted, just as a band...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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if so be as how
A vulgar expression used by uneducated people in the interior parts of this country and in England.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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A B C
·- The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance.
II. A B C ·- A primer for teach...
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All-a-mort
·adj ·see <<Alamort>>.
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Black-a-vised
·adj Dark-visaged; swart.
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Bric-a brac
·noun Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.
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Char-a-bancs
·noun A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.
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Chars-a-banc
·pl of Char-a-bancs.
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Cock-a-hoop
·adj Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
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Cornet-a-piston
·noun A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sli...
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Cornets-a-piston
·pl of Cornet-a-piston.
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Dos-a-dos
·add. ·noun A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.
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Flute a bec
·- A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held li...
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Jack-a-dandy
·noun A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.
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Jack-a-lent
·noun A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.
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Penny-a-liner
·noun One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack ...
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Pi-a cloth
·add. ·- A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, ·etc., woven from the fiber obtained f...
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Tete-a-tete
·adj Private; confidential; familiar.
II. Tete-a-tete ·noun A short sofa intended to accomodate two...
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Vis-a-vis
·adv Face to face.
II. Vis-a-vis ·noun One who, or that which, is face to face with another; ·esp.,...
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